Course Outline

20416 Implementing Desktop Application Environments

Course Overview

This course provides students with the skills and knowledge to be able to design, deploy and manage a physical as well as a virtual Windows Server 2012 application management infrastructure.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for IT Professionals who are interested in specializing in Windows 8 application deployments and managing the application environments for large organizations. People attending this training could be support technicians or currently in deployment roles and are considering taking the next step in their career or enhancing their skills in the areas of planning and deploying Windows 8 desktops.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to: •Design an application distribution strategy that is appropriate for an organizational environment. •Diagnose and remediate application compatibility problems for desktop and presentation virtualization-based deployments. •Use Group Policy and Windows Intune to deploy applications to client devices. •Deploy applications centrally using Configuration Manager. •Configure self-service application deployment using Configuration Manager, Service Manager, and Windows 8 Application Store. •Design and deploy Windows Server 2012 roles and features to support presentation virtualization. •Prepare, deploy and manage applications for Remote Desktop, RemoteApp, and Remote Desktop Web Access. •Design and deploy Windows Server 2012 roles and features to support application virtualization. •Virtualize and deploy applications by using App-V and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. •Plan and configure the appropriate infrastructure to streamline the deployment of software updates to applications, and plan and configure application security. •Plan and implement application upgrades, supersedence, and application coexistence. •Monitor the deployment, performance, and utilization of applications and determine whether current application hosting platforms are meeting business needs.